Herod and his Sons

This chapter continues to explore the depiction of Herod’s domestic strife, and turns to the executions of Herod’s sons. This is a rare case where we have a separate fragment of Nicolaus, and thus can check Josephus’ censure of his predecessor’s account: the criticisms are not borne out, and Josephus’ accounts instead exhibit many Damascene traits. The executions, moreover, are a turning point in Herod’s decline from δραστήριος‎ to ἄπορος‎, in which he is shown to have now forgotten piety and justice. Furthermore, because Nicolaus himself was intimately bound up with these events, he here encountered new challenges in his narrative as he became one of the principal actors. Thus, not only do we see in these trials the further development of, we argue, Nicolaus’ depiction of the king’s descent into tyranny, but also a sustained exploration of what it meant to be an adviser to such a monarch, and more generally what it meant to be a φίλος‎ to king and emperor alike in the Augustan world.

Edification Dictums in the Language Consciousness of the Kazakh Ethnos

Introduction. Objective: linguacultural analysis of the edification words, collected in a free associative experiment (FAE) and published in the “Kazakh Associative Dictionary”. Materials & Methods. Set of associations of instructive character singled out by the continuous sampling method into a separate fragment of the world paremiological image is a unique representative research material included into the Kazakh Associative Dictionary, in the 23 655 associative reactions of the students of different universities in Shymkent city for112 stimulus words, 272 sayings – edifications recorded in 200 questionnaires. Archetypal layers of the ethnic linguistic consciousness represented in the edifying paremias reflect the Kazakh spiritual and moral values. The content of the FAE and Kazakh Associative Dictionary reflects the indicative feature of the study, i.e. introduction of the gender factor differentiating the men and women associations; it provided for revealing and presentation of the reliable characteristics of the gender determined linguistic consciousness of the informants. The content of the sayings-edification mainly relates to the moral life of the nation, they enshrine the generally accepted ethical norms. Results. Gender irrelevant positions: evil and good are equally evaluated differently; respect for elders is clearly manifested. Gender marked positions: for men – duty to the homeland, responsibility for the family; desire to work together; for women – the desire to protect family values, to correspond to the accepted world order, androcentrism. Conclusions. The linguistic consciousness of the ethnos (in particular, its fragment as an actively demanded paremiological fund) reflects archetypal ideas about the ethnic spiritual and moral worldview values, on which stable elements of the modern Kazakh linguistic culture are formed and actively functioning; being vital for the ethnic integrity.

Content of heavy metals in the bottom sediments of the wastewater of the processing enterprise

Wastewater contains stable and unstable pollutants. In the process of self-cleaning, a large amount of bottom sediments accumulates, especially in artificially created storage ponds. As a result of the increasing load on this type of water bodies and the accumulation of bottom sediments, the self-purification ability is sharply reduced, which entails an additional load on the environment. The use of bottom sediments for biological reclamation is allowed after the establishment of the hazard class in accordance with the current regulatory documents and taking measures to neutralize them. The purpose of this separate fragment of work was to study the total content of heavy metals in the bottom sediments of storage ponds of a milk processing enterprise and determine the possibility of their further use. As a result of the data obtained, it can be concluded that the lead content was 14.6-17.3 mg/kg, depending on the depth of the bottom sediment sampling layer. At a sampling depth of 0.5-1.0 meters, the lead content was maximum and exceeded the clarke values of the element by 8.1%. There is a 2 time excess of the clarke values for cadmium at a depth of 1.0-1.5 meters. Indicators for zinc and copper were 12.4-14.1 mg/kg and 5.9-9.8 mg/kg, respectively, and did not go beyond the threshold limits of the compared values. The research results allow concluding that the bottom sediments of the storage ponds of the milk processing enterprise are not toxic. Therefore, they can be used in the composition of soil.

До питання про основні напрями вивчення емоцій у польському, російському та українському мовознавстві

The article is devoted to the main directions of studying emotions in linguistics. The subject of the study are the works of Polish, Russian and Ukrainian linguists, devoted to the description of the verbalisation of emotions. The analysis of works shows that the main linguistic directions in the study of the concepts of emotions are linguocognitivistics and linguoculturology. The main approaches to the semantic description of the verbalisation of emotions can be called semantic, metaphorical and combined. Despite the diversity of vectors of linguistic analysis, each study reconstructs a separate fragment of the general linguistic picture of the world of emotions.